I thought I'd tell a short cautionary tale, something that I surely hadn't though of before this. Maybe it will save you some trouble.

We are moving to a new PDM. We want to move only the good files, without all the junk that has collected in the libraries. Just the good stuff is like 16000 files and about 15 top level assemblies. To separate the good stuff from the bad, we are using Pack and Go.

As it happens, each top level assembly includes a name plate, each of which is modeled as a configuration in the same part file. The draftsman who created the top level assembly drawings made a view of just the label in about eight of the drawings. I think he did that because making a detail view of the whole assembly involved too much time and overhead. It was more efficient to just show the label. So that's what we had.

Pack and Go worked fine, until we selected "Include Drawings". That kicked off a very long wait. When the list finally resolved, we found many parts from the wrong assemblies. At first it was a mystery, but we saw that label in the structure tree and figured it out. From SolidWorks point of view, we had created nine drawings of that label, so it put all those drawings into the Pack and Go. And for each of those top level assembly drawings, it had to bring in all the associated part and assembly files.

There was no quick fix. Opening and editing just one large assembly drawing is a pain. Eight was a huge chore.

In our case it was easy to see that something was wrong. In another case you might get something into a Pack and Go unintentionally and not notice. So be careful what model you use to make a view.

Dwight